SR archives: Search for missing Wallace attorney

Jim Kershner /SR, from the newspaper’s archives 100 years ago: More than 100 volunteers were searching for Abner G. Kerns, a former Idaho state senator and prominent Wallace attorney. Kerns had been missing for several days. His automobile was found abandoned at Prichard, Idaho, with his hat and coat inside. A logger from the Dollar Lumber Camp reported seeing a hatless and coatless man walking near the North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River, but that was the only sighting. Family members reported that Kerns had been behaving “queerly” for several days before his disappearance. A brother said he rode with him on an excursion to Murray, but Kerns drove so recklessly that the brother got out of the car and came home on the train. More here .